Rutgers Community Coalition in Solidarity with South African Liberation
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
1977?
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The system of apartheid enables four million whites to deny the most basic human rights to black, colored and Asian population of nearly 20 million. The majority blacks are treated as “labor units” to be used as the minority sees fit. This warped system is sustained by a modern fascist police apparatus and a lifeblood of foreign investment and loans, mostly from the U.S. and Britain. It is incumbent upon the Rutgers community to remove any direct or indirect assistance of our university may be giving South Africa’s racist and fascist system. Between $7 - $10 million of Rutgers’ nearly $30 million in total investments can be traced to banks and corporations in South...
The system of apartheid enables four million whites to deny the most basic human rights to black, colored and Asian population of nearly 20 million. The majority blacks are treated as “labor units” to be used as the minority sees fit. This warped system is sustained by a modern fascist police apparatus and a lifeblood of foreign investment and loans, mostly from the U.S. and Britain. It is incumbent upon the Rutgers community to remove any direct or indirect assistance of our university may be giving South Africa’s racist and fascist system. Between $7 - $10 million of Rutgers’ nearly $30 million in total investments can be traced to banks and corporations in South Africa. Rutgers holds $1.7 million in notes in GM, Phelps Dodge, and Manufacturers Hanover Trust. Other major stock holdings include GE (10,400 shares), IBM (6,250 shares), Mobil Oil (10,075), Ford Motors and Motor Credit (2,323,000 shares). Conscious support of apartheid means many things. 1. Loss of jobs for U.S. workers because companies paying slave wages to South African blacks is very lucrative. 2. Profits in South Africa are consequently 20% per year against 7% per year in the U.S. 3. Propping up the Vorster regime, which has been condemned by the U.N., World Council of Churches, and many others. 4. Support for a system which bans labor unions, political activity, and all other attempts at peaceful change by blacks.
Coalition in Solidarity with South African Liberation
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This document was digitized by the Anti-Apartheid Activism at Rutgers which made it available to the African Activist Archive. See https://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu/archive/collections/show/27
Used by permission of Chris Berzinski and Sue Kozel, formers members of the Coalition in Solidarity with South African Liberation.
Anti-Apartheid Activism at Rutgers, Scarlet and Black Research Center, Rutgers University
